A recent interview. I really enjoyed answering these questions.

We talk about the realities of neurodivergence, the invisible labour inherent in publishing, my opinions on ‘nature cure’, and why so much writing advice falls flat for so many (it travels well because it sounds confident, not because it’s accurate, and it often asks writers to distrust their own ways of working).

https://neurodivergentnotesonwriting.substack.com/p/my-process-is-simply-adapting-to

#Scotland #Writing #WritingCommunity #Books #Book #Reading #UK #Author #Women #ADHD

A recent interview. I really enjoyed answering these questions.

We talk about the realities of neurodivergence, the invisible labour inherent in publishing, my opinions on ‘nature cure’, and why so much writing advice falls flat for so many (it travels well because it sounds confident, not because it’s accurate, and it often asks writers to distrust their own ways of working).

https://neurodivergentnotesonwriting.substack.com/p/my-process-is-simply-adapting-to

#Scotland #Writing #WritingCommunity #Books #Book #Reading #UK #Author #Women #ADHD

The perfect job doesn't exi-

#books #reading

💕 I Love Free Software Day 2026 💕

For this year’s I Love Free Software Day I am co-organising two special events, and I am super excited about them!

• 🧶 Knitting Our Internet at Snackbar Frieda, Rotterdam, on Friday Feb 13th at 18:00. All information here.
• 🛹 A reading of @kirschner’s Ada & Zangemann in English and in Dutch. After that, a conversation about Free Software maintenance as care work, together with @mayel from @Bonfire ❤️‍🔥 at the @internetarchiveeurope, Oudeschans 16, Amsterdam on Saturday Feb 14th at 14:00. All information here. Info about the super cool poster in the post below.

#FreeSoftware #SoftwareFreedom #ILoveFS #ILoveFreeSoftware #ILoveFS #IloveFS26 #ournet #KnittingOurInternet #SnackbarFrieda #Rotterdam #Amsterdam #InternetArchive #InternetArchiveEurope #AZbook #Ada #AdaZangemann #reading #event #decentralizaion #InternetHistory #Internet

The perfect job doesn't exi-

#books #reading

J. A. Bakker - Hunebed D26 in het Drouwenerveld. Het laatste volledig onderzochte Nederlandse hunebed Deel 1: tekst

Een geweldig en geweldig gedetailleerd boek.

In 1968 en 1970 gaf J.A. Bakker leiding aan de laatste wetenschappelijke opgraving van de kelder en keldervulling van een hunebed in Nederland. Meer dan een halve eeuw later publiceert hij het afgeronde verslag.

Hij hoopte door zorgvuldig te werken, te kunnen zien dat vondsten die dieper lagen, ouder waren. Iets waar de bejaarde Van Giffen (grondlegger van hunebedstudies)niet in geloofde.

Duidelijk is dat dit niet het geval is.

Maar -mede op basis van scripties van studenten, die ruim geciteerd worden- valt er toch heel veel te leren over D26 en de bouwers ervan.

Het allermooist vond ik Bakkers eigen hoofdstuk 5 over de conclusies obv de aardewerkvondsten. Maar ook de breedte van de ingezette technieken en deskundigheid en de diepe detailkennis die dan ingezet wordt, vind ik super interessant. Net als het geschetste overzicht van de geschiedenis van (het onderzoek naar) D26 en andere hunebedden.

Kortom ik genoot van het boek en iedereen met interesse in archeologie en zonder angst voor detail, zal dat ook doen.

#WatWouterLas26 #LezenIsLeuk #Archeologie #Hunebed #D26 #Hunebedcentrum #Reading #Bookstodon #Boekstadon

This piece is about drystone walling, and about belonging. About building something solid before building something beautiful. About making a life, and a place in it, with your own hands.

https://kristiedegaris.substack.com/p/the-work-of-belonging

#Scotland #UK #Books #Book #Reading #Writing #WritingCommunity #Women #Land #Nature #Life

Quote of the day, "We judge others by their actions, but we judge ourselves by our intentions" - Ian Percy

Good morning everyone, enjoy these early morning pictures from my garden, including a white Dahlia ✨🌸🌻

ps: Sorry, the name of the flower in the first picture escapes me. Regardless, it's one of my favorites.

#flowers #bloomscrolling #garden #nature #flower #photography #quote #quotes #reading #bookstodon #reading

New blog post: About Reading and Books (https://recondo.com.br/2026/02/08/about-reading-and-books/) #books #reading

Quote of the day, "We judge others by their actions, but we judge ourselves by our intentions" - Ian Percy

Good morning everyone, enjoy these early morning pictures from my garden, including a white Dahlia ✨🌸🌻

ps: Sorry, the name of the flower in the first picture escapes me. Regardless, it's one of my favorites.

#flowers #bloomscrolling #garden #nature #flower #photography #quote #quotes #reading #bookstodon #reading

New blog post: About Reading and Books (https://recondo.com.br/2026/02/08/about-reading-and-books/) #books #reading

J. A. Bakker - Hunebed D26 in het Drouwenerveld. Het laatste volledig onderzochte Nederlandse hunebed Deel 1: tekst

Een geweldig en geweldig gedetailleerd boek.

In 1968 en 1970 gaf J.A. Bakker leiding aan de laatste wetenschappelijke opgraving van de kelder en keldervulling van een hunebed in Nederland. Meer dan een halve eeuw later publiceert hij het afgeronde verslag.

Hij hoopte door zorgvuldig te werken, te kunnen zien dat vondsten die dieper lagen, ouder waren. Iets waar de bejaarde Van Giffen (grondlegger van hunebedstudies)niet in geloofde.

Duidelijk is dat dit niet het geval is.

Maar -mede op basis van scripties van studenten, die ruim geciteerd worden- valt er toch heel veel te leren over D26 en de bouwers ervan.

Het allermooist vond ik Bakkers eigen hoofdstuk 5 over de conclusies obv de aardewerkvondsten. Maar ook de breedte van de ingezette technieken en deskundigheid en de diepe detailkennis die dan ingezet wordt, vind ik super interessant. Net als het geschetste overzicht van de geschiedenis van (het onderzoek naar) D26 en andere hunebedden.

Kortom ik genoot van het boek en iedereen met interesse in archeologie en zonder angst voor detail, zal dat ook doen.

#WatWouterLas26 #LezenIsLeuk #Archeologie #Hunebed #D26 #Hunebedcentrum #Reading #Bookstodon #Boekstadon

Hi, I’m Ro! I’m a self-loving antizionist Jew and a self-hating lawyer.

I live on unceded Interior Salish land in the Pacific Northwest of what’s known to some, for now, as the US with my wife & our dogs. 🏳️‍🌈 Our family is WASP, Ashkenazi & Nicaraguan. 🥰 I practice deportation defense and I’m an abolitionist.

✨Find me enjoying hiking & biking & reading & writing & music & collage.✨

🏔️For hiking & snowshoeing I’m usually somewhere in the PNW, preferably going to the top of something or at least seeing some cool trees or rocks or moss. I’m a bike commuter! 🚲

📚Favorite novels include Babel by R.F. Kuang, Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler, No.6 by Asano Atsuko, Taiwan Travelogue by Yáng Shuāng-zi & Future Home of the Living God by Louise Erdrich. Favorite nonfiction includes Fresh Banana Leaves by Jessica Hernández, The Other Slavery by Andres Reséndez & Emergent Strategy by adrienne maree brown. And my favorite manga ever is Fullmetal Alchemist - unbeatable IMO (although I am loving The Summer Hikaru Died these days). I’m rodile on Storygraph.

✏️Current writing projects include a novel about lesbian ecoterrorists & an amorphous story about an anarchist-reformist enemies-to-lovers-to-enemies? situationship.

🎶Music I love includes Mitski, The Muslims, The Gits, Left at London & Doechii. I also love swimming and sleeping and petting my dogs!!!! And persimmons 😅

English, español, 普通话都可以！I usually follow (back) if it seems like we’d vibe. I’m honestly a nice person but I’m angry all the time. I like emojis and ampersands and alt text. This post is very long but I wasn’t sure what to include & I believe it’ll get cut so I hope it’s not too annoying! I am hoping to connect with more people on here. Here are a bunch of tags to either filter this post out or find it! :)

#longPost #introduction #mosstodon #vegan #languageLearning #writingCommunity #lesbian #USpol #books #reading #law #immigration #Jewish #LGBTQ #queer #music #abolition #fuckICE #freePalestine #hiking #bikeTooter #PNW

Read to write:
https://bigthink.com/books/why-read-more-may-underrated-thinking-advice/

#Writing #Reading

Knowing has a terminal limit, beyond which it becomes part of the harm...

#Writing #WritingCommunity #Reading #News #Scotland #UK #Books

Just a reminder that if you like my writing on Substack, it’s very likely that you will also like my book ‘Drystone - A Life Rebuilt’

If you buy it on bookshop.org you support me and indy bookshops.

https://uk.bookshop.org/a/15919/9781846976469

#Books #Book #Writing #WritingCommunity #Reading #Scotland #UK

Fancy a little puzzle to solve?

Work this out and i shall send you a little something. hi[at]bookhouse.uk if you have the solution.

Please feel free to share it with a friend who likes puzzles. Or a lover you have lost contact with. Or even a relative that you still speak to.

#puzzlebook #treasurehunt #books #reading #puzzles